If entrepreneurs are the future of agriculture big & small – let’s do it right! To focus on innovating properly, and change the current paradigm to a more resilient practice.  The heavy hand of technology has influenced most every industry, except food, where transparency of production can afford the still niche market of sustainable agriculture a unique competitive advantage.

So, for all you entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers, investors and consumers alike – have a look at what is really going on with the future production of our food.

Big Ag capitalists compete with other capitalists. But when it comes to feeding the world’s billions Monsanto and their Big Ag competitors are at war with a different enemy, warns Tim Radford on the Climate Change Network: “Coming soon to a farm near you: just about every possible type of pest that could take advantage of the ripening harvest in the nearby fields.”

According to the Global Ecology and Biogeography journal, by 2050 many more “opportunistic viruses, bacteria, fungi, blights, mildews, rusts, beetles, nematodes, flies, mites, spiders and caterpillars that farmers call pests will have saturated the world.” Researchers at UK University of Exeter reviewed “the present status of 1,901 pests and pathogens and examined historical records of another 424 species” since 1822.

Bottom line: “If crop pests continue to spread at current rates, many of the world’s biggest crop-producing nations will be inundated by the middle of the century, posing a grave threat to global food security,” warns Exeter’s Dan Bebber. This is obviously bad news for Monsanto and other Big Ag companies. But worse for the 10 billion of us living on Planet Earth, by 2050 these armies of food pests will be getting first bite of Big Ag’s crops, leaving much less for 10 billion humans.